Hoppy Easter

Oh. My. Goodness.

Take at look at this!

I'm not ashamed to admit I was completely defenseless against all the cute adorableness! I mean, look at those bunnies! Their sweet little faces! You just know I immediately had ideas running around in my brain, lol. Here's the outcome of all that thinking.

I took inspiration from the bunnies, colours and terracotta gingham. There's another bunny and carrot on the inside and a sentiment that reads 'Hope your day is bunny-tastic'.

Materials used:

• stamps - Postage Collage Egg Hunt (Waffle Flower)
• dies - Postage Collage Bunny Silhouettes, Postage Collage, Postage Collage Blocks (all Waffle Flower)
• other - blending brushes, MISTI, Big Shot, craft foam, Dimensionals, winter watercolour patterned papers (Etsy), fine black marker, various inks, white Pan Pastel, white embossing powder, heat tool
• design inspired by Karen Downs

It's less than a week now until Easter and the things I look forward to the most, as I do every year, are spending time with my family and eating Cadbury chocolate marshmallow eggs. The eggs are a 'tradition' from growing up in New Zealand and the holiday just wouldn't be the same without them, lol. 

Thanks for coming by and have a hoppy Easter.

Cheers

Kerry

We're All Crazy

The image from the current Inspired by challenge got me thinking...

It brought back memories of all the teapots, cups and saucers we gathered quite a few years back now, when my younger daughter had an Alice in Wonderland themed birthday tea. And that memory gave germ to the following card:

The Mad Hatter's hair was made with flower dies and, as usual, everything was cut from white and coloured with inks. 

Materials used:

• stamps - Love You a Latte (Lawn Fawn)
• dies - Papercut Cafe, Tailored (both Tim Holtz), flowers from stash
• distress inks - mowed lawn, evergreen bough, crushed olive, spun sugar, kitsch flamingo, picked raspberry, scattered straw, fossilized amber
• other - blending brushes, Sidekick, Dimensionals, Small Talk Snarky sticker book (Tim Holtz)
• idea inspired by an Emma Williams make

It was fun to make a quirky card! Hope it gives you a chuckle, and thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kerry

Thanks So Berry Much

Having used cardstock and ink called blackberry bliss for my last card, it was still in my mind when I saw the current challenge at Inspired by...

So I wanted to use blackberry bliss again but also incorporate some of the other colours, as well as have a touch of that 'farm fresh' feeling. This is how my card turned out:

I found some delightful Blackberry Fairies and used one here - isn't she adorable? I fussy cut the image, sponged the background with green, blue sky and clouds, stamped the sentiment at the top of my arch, then assembled everything together. 

Materials used:

• stamps - Berry Special (Lawn Fawn)
• image - Blackberry Fairies (Ginger Journals)
• dies - Essential Arches (Spellbinders), stitched rectangle (Paper Rose)
• other - blending brushes, cloud stencil (MFT), Big Shot, clear dots, craft foam, Dimensionals, MISTI

It was a lot of fun making something different to my usual and I'm still loving that blackberry colour. It looks a bit dark in the photo - unfortunately it was 5pm by the time I was taking pics and the winter sun was weak and low in the sky, but I hope you can tell it's dark burgundy and not black! 

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

Birthday Wishes and Cupcakes

Today's card is for two challenges, Inspired by... and Just Us Girls.

 

These challenges were the perfect excuse I really didn't need to bust out some goodies and play!

Materials used:

• dies - Postage Collage, Postage Collage blocks, Happy Birthday script word (all Waffle Flower)
• stencils - Postage Collage Cupcakes, Postage Collage Coloring, Confetti background (all Waffle Flower)
• inks - summer shower, seaside, coral reef, passion fruit (Pinkfresh), golden glitz (Delicata), twisted citron (Tim Holtz)
• other - blending brushes, Big Shot, Dimensionals, craft foam, clear Wink of Stella

I chose colours that are festive but not too bold and added some sparkly touches on each panel for extra birthday zing. As usual there are two layers to the die-cut sentiment for strength and depth.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry 

Practically Perfect

This week's Inspired by...challenge caught my eye. 

Umbrellas immediately made me think of Mary Poppins. Anyone else or is it just me? 😉 No? Ok then, lol. Showing my age I guess. Well anyway, once I had the thought, of course it wouldn't leave me alone, so eventually I sat at my craft desk and made a card.

The sentiment was done on the computer (if you know of a stamp set that says this, please let me know!) and I tried to match the font styles from the movie as well as I could, lol. I cut a number of Mary Poppins' in different colour card and cut and layered them, setting them on a simple inky background. The little red bow tie is one of the kite ribbons in the die set and I used markers to colour her hair and flower. And of course I couldn't leave out the iconic parrot head on the umbrella, so I printed a teeny one of those too. 

Materials used:

• card - white, black, blush, blue, red
• dies - The Park (Tim Holtz), stitched rectangle (Paper Rose)
• other - blending brush, Dimensionals, craft foam, Big Shot, markers, blue ink

Hope your day is practically perfect! Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

Love Every Minute

I'm back again with another entry for The Color Throwdown challenge - just kept getting ideas for these gorgeous colours - and this time I'm incorporating it with a second challenge, Inspired By.

And here's my card:

The flowers and leaves are watercoloured and I set them on some distressed woodgrain card for subtle, organic texture. 

Materials used:

• stamps - Do What You Love (Pinkfresh Studios)
• dies - Wildflower Stems 1 and 3 (Tim Holtz)
• other - woodgrain cardstock (Tim Holtz), Zig Clean Color real brush markers, water brush, distressing tool, Dimensionals, craft foam, Big Shot, opal rounds, white baker's twine, sponge dauber

Thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kerry

Ghostly Presents

I'm loving this week's theme at Inspired By challenges and couldn't resist playing along:

Here's my ghostly inspiration:

As you can see, I'm still loving some bright pink for Halloween! I ink smooshed the background and once it was dry, stamped the candy corn and sweets with oxide ink before white embossing my sentiment. The hats were coloured with markers and my finishing touches were some white gel pen and black stitching. I'm thinking I'm gonna need a second sewing machine for my cards so I can keep it set up and not have to change needles! (Mind you, threading the needle with a different coloured thread each time is a real challenge for my old eyes, so perhaps I need a number of machines, lol - one for each colour!)

Materials used:

• stamps - Tiny Frights (Tim Holtz)
• card - basic black, distress white heavystock, watercolour
• distress inks - kitsch flamingo spray stain, picked raspberry oxide ink and spray, cocktail party mica stain
• other - MISTI, white embossing powder, heat tool, Zig Clean Color brush markers, white gel pen, Dimensionals, craft foam, sewing machine and thread, scissors, embossing buddy

Thanks for calling in. Have a crafty day!

Cheers

Kerry

A Lot Like Christmas

Over at Inspired By... challenges, they've got a gorgeous inspiration pic that caught my eye.

 

You can take anything from this for inspiration but they offer a sketch too, with the choice of incorporating it or not.

I love the colour combination in the picture so took those as my inspiration and decided to use the sketch as well for my mixed media whimsical Christmas card. 

  

I began with stencilling onto a piece of watercolour card using crackle texture paste and left it to dry overnight before spraying with the latest distress colour, lumberjack plaid, with both dye and oxide sprays. The blue plaid piece behind was stamped with salty ocean oxide ink then I used a marker and ruler to add the crimson stripes to the pattern. That adorable Santa image and the sentiment are from the Darling Christmas set. I stamped another plaid pattern on to the slide frame and once it was dry, covered it with embossing ink and sprinkled it with frosted crystal embossing powder. Santa was watercoloured then the inks protected with micro glaze - it's way too easy to smudge accidentally! I added a pop of green, mimicking the sprig of parsley in the picture with a small spray of holly leaves punched from scrap. 

Materials used:

• stamps - Darling Christmas, Perfect Plaids (both Tim Holtz)
• card - basic white, watercolour
• distress inks/sprays/oxides - lumberjack plaid, salty ocean, mowed lawn, vintage photo, black soot
• other - SU markers, Specimen die set (TH), stitched rectangle dies, Big Shot, waterbrush, clear embossing powder (SU), frosted crystal embossing powder (Ranger), heat tool, MISTI, crackle texture paste (TH), holly punch, craft foam, Holiday Script stencil (TH)

Thanks for dropping by.

Cheers

Kerry